How to “do” a short teaching session
One of the challenges of any talk is the wide experience of the audience. The same is true in writing this blog. I recently was privileged to be interviewed by @ccpractitioner…
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You’re in charge
When you present you are in charge so make sure the environment is how you’d like it to be. Most speakers don’t realise this and consequently presentations are not as good…
Fontography 101
People can get very excited about fonts but most people just haven’t a clue. A good font can change the look of your presentation dramatically, both for the best and…
Don’t get me wrong.
The reason that most text based presentations suck is because science. It would be wrong to assume that this means text is banned from presentations, far from it. It is…
That’s not how you spell prezentation
The original website for this blog was at Blogger and the blog url was: preZENtationskills. This is in tribute to my Sensei, Garr Reynolds and his seminal blogsite Presentation Zen.…
Where, precisely are you going?
The key mistake made in preparing a presentation is in failing to identify purpose. “What is your objective, relative to this subject, in talking to this group, today?” The answer…
Chicken or egg? Both are wrong
I recently had the privilige of being interviewed by Jesse Spurr for his Injectable Orange podcast. One of topics we chatted about was the ‘ole standard of “why do we…
Guest blog- presenting with owls, not text.
I’m very pleased to offer another guest post on the blog, this time from Dr Simon Saunders @Novomix30 on his experience of improving his presentations. “I had been following @ffolliet and…
It is a performance, not a reading.
The 4th P in Presentation is to Perform. Clearly this is the most important. Even having perfected all of the preceding parts of your presentation if you simply stand on…
The 2nd P is for Preparation.
Each part of your presentation is as important as the others. It is essential that we address delivery of our presentation in our journey towards improvement. In a previous post…